The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate Filaret announced the criteria that will be taken into account when electing the primate of the Single Local Church in Ukraine. On the air of the Ukrainian Radio, he said that the Ukrainian church, according to the conditions of the Patriarch of Constantinople, should head the archbishop – the Metropolitan, not the patriarch, reports UNIAN.
In this regard, the head of the UOC-KP received an expanded (Archbishop and Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia of Ukraine) and shortened titles (patriarch of Kiev and All Russia of Ukraine, for internal use). “We must have theological education, we must know the canons of the church, we must have experience in managing the diocese and the experience of church management, and if there is no experience, then there will not be any business,” Filaret said. The head of the UOC-KP stressed that he was not ready to give up his personal ambitions in electing the head of the new church.
